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Slightly off-topic, but OMGPOP had the best version of Tetris I've ever played. It was multiplayer, had lots of powerups, it was really well done. But then the fucking Tetris Company came (as expected). Can't understand how they can get away with it.

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> Can't understand how they can get away with it.

The fact that you call the OMGPOP game 'Tetris' explains how they got away with it I think =)

That should be a claim for stripping them of the trademark if anything.

edit: is there any other example like tetris in the games industry?

Risk, Scrabble games have been taken down, but I don't think it was because of trademark. Civilization is the opposit with lots of clones, no take downs nor trademark suits, even for http://freeciv.org which uses "Civ".

The entirety of OMGPOP was incredible, it was one of the best online gaming platforms I've ever seen.

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